Russia Gloats Over Shooting: ‘Trump Has Biden’s Balls in his Hand’

For years, Russian state media pundits have been claiming that the Democrats would assassinate Donald Trump and even previously proposed that Russia’s Federal Security Service should “start protecting our Donald.”

Unconstrained by facts or journalistic standards—striving to kill two birds with one stone—Russian propagandists are now blaming both the Democrats and Ukrainians for an attempt on Trump’s life. During Sunday’s broadcast of the show At Dawn on the Solovyov Live network, former New York Times correspondent John Varoli baselessly claimed, “The Democratic party is behind this attempted assassination! The Democratic party is doing everything to destroy Donald Trump!”

He added, “In all seriousness, I believe that the Ukrainian special services may be behind this—on orders from the White House.” Host Andrey Ponomar chimed in to add that since Ukrainians were allegedly able to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, then the head of Ukrainioan military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, might also be linked to an attempt on Trump’s life.

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